One Week Challenge - Day 2 and 3

Monday – back to the work week!

It was nice having everything prepared for myself in the early morning, so I packed a yogurt with strawberries and some biscuits (with the freebie butter samples you get at restaurants or Timmies). For lunch, I took a large salad with vinegar (I couldn’t finish it!) and a schnitzel (with those freebie ketchup packets). I drank water all day, although I was fighting a headache the whole time so I think I might be having the caffeine/sugar withdrawls…

James did the banana/strawberry pancakes for breakfast, some soda bread with jam and a slice of Free birthday cake at work for lunch, and enjoyed the schnitzel with wedges for dinner.

I don’t normally eat dinner, or at least only eat a small one. At the beginning of this, we made a rule about “nothing goes in our mouth unless it’s free” this week, so I snuck in a nice dinner with Grandma tonight (who never lets me pay)! From grandma’s house I also brought home big bowls of soup and applesauce (which we will save and eat next week). I’m mentioning these, because if you are struggling financially, you can always try and have a meal or two with your family for free. They may not be able to give you a loan, but they can usually help you save on a meal or two!

Tuesday –

I had a breakfast same as yesterday, and some cucumber slices for my snack. Hubby did the pancakes for breakfast and some soda bread and salad for lunch. We both get coffee and tea free at work, so have had a couple every day as well.

My lunch and his dinner today is another first for us… Homemade pasta! What an experience, but it turned out like pasta! Tastes different than the store-bought version, but I don’t need to add butter to it for taste like I normally do. With it we have an 24 hour marinated porkchop each (ketchup, spices, and soy sauce) that was then baked. My dinner will be a combination of pasta leftovers from today’s lunch (too large a portion for me) and the little bit of leftover salad from my lunch yesterday.

Tonight will also be a bit of snackage – a bowl of ketchup chips for me and some strawberries and wafers for him.

Learnings so far:

• You use a lot of flour making stuff from scratch
• We are out of yogurt and eggs already
• I need some more sugar/caffeine in my life
• We CAN make new stuff successfully!
• This is fun!